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About the prayer

The event in which Christ taught the prayer to his disciples is related in Matthew 6:5-14 and Luke 11:1-4. Before this, no one dared to pray to God as their very own Father.

In the early Church, only after baptism and chrismation, was the Lord's Prayer taught to people. Only then, the faithful who have become children of God in Christ and the Holy Spirit dare to pray to God as to their very own Father. The prayer is used in many of the liturgical services, including the Divine Liturgy, in which it is introduced by the Priest, with boldness and without condemnation to dare to call upon the Heavenly God as Father and to say:

Private prayer

The Lord's Prayer is undeniably the most commonly-used prayer in private and corporate settings.

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